Reuters US Top Archives - Page 4 of 642

US aluminium premium shows market sanguine over threat of Trump tariffs on Canada

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – Although aluminium prices for U.S. consumers have risen since Donald Trump’s election win, the rise has been muted, signalling the industry is not expecting the President-elect to carry out his threat to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian imports. Prices of primary aluminium in the United States, a net importer …

US aluminium premium shows market sanguine over threat of Trump tariffs on Canada Read More »

Erdogan ally urges jailed militant leader to announce PKK’s disbandment

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group’s disbandment after his next meeting with the country’s pro-Kurdish political party. The remarks by Devlet Bahceli, leader of the nationalist MHP party, came after a rare meeting between officials from the pro-Kurdish DEM …

Erdogan ally urges jailed militant leader to announce PKK’s disbandment Read More »

Explainer-Why does Russia want to capture strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk?

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are closing in on the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of villages to its south, and Ukraine has halted production at its only coking coal mine nearby due to the advance. Here are some key points about Pokrovsk and …

Explainer-Why does Russia want to capture strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk? Read More »

Head of hostage NGO believes US journalist Tice still in Syria

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

(This Jan. 13 story has been corrected to show Zakka has U.S. citizenship, in paragraph 3) By Firas Makdesi DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S. journalist Austin Tice was still being held in Syria by people loyal to toppled leader Bashar al-Assad. …

Head of hostage NGO believes US journalist Tice still in Syria Read More »

As LA fights fires, Australian official urges more help from social media platforms

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By Alasdair Pal and Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian head of the world’s largest volunteer firefighting force said on Tuesday a refusal by social media firms to give emergency services free access to its data was hindering responders globally, as wildfires continued to rip through Los Angeles. Rob Rogers, Commissioner of the New …

As LA fights fires, Australian official urges more help from social media platforms Read More »

Special counsel report found Trump engaged in ‘criminal effort’ to overturn 2020 election

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

(Reuters) – Special Counsel Jack Smith found President-elect Donald Trump engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat, according to a report released by the Department of Justice on Tuesday. Smith, who resigned in the wake of Trump’s election victory in November, also found charges could be justified against Trump’s co-conspirators …

Special counsel report found Trump engaged in ‘criminal effort’ to overturn 2020 election Read More »

Trump says he will meet ‘very quickly’ with Putin

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By Jasper Ward (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he is going to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “very quickly” after he takes office next week. He did not provide a timeline for the meeting, which would be the first between the leaders of the two countries since Russia’s war with Ukraine …

Trump says he will meet ‘very quickly’ with Putin Read More »

Traffic falls in New York City after $9 congestion fee introduced

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Traffic in Manhattan’s central business district fell by 7.5% last week and 273,000 fewer cars entered the borough’s central business district after the first congestion pricing fee in the U.S. took effect on Jan. 5, New York City transit officials said on Monday. The fee is designed to reduce traffic …

Traffic falls in New York City after $9 congestion fee introduced Read More »

Mexico’s Sheinbaum lays out plan to cut Chinese imports in apparent nod to Trump

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By Kylie Madry and Sarah Morland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday rolled out an economic plan aimed at curbing imports from China in an apparent nod to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his allegations that Mexico is a back door for Chinese goods entering the United States. Sheinbaum also used her …

Mexico’s Sheinbaum lays out plan to cut Chinese imports in apparent nod to Trump Read More »

Secret UK files detailing confessions of Cambridge Five spies released

14 Jan 2025 14 Jan 2025

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain’s most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet Union were released for the first time on Tuesday. Philby and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John …

Secret UK files detailing confessions of Cambridge Five spies released Read More »